Isaiah Stewart had a right to be mad. He didn’t have the right to channel it the way he did Sunday night at Little Caesars Arena. At least not according to Adam Silver, the NBA’s commissioner, who suspended the Detroit Pistons‘ second-year forward for two games for “escalating and aggressively pursuing” LeBron James after the Los Angeles Lakers’ superstar hit him in
Isaiah Stewart had a right to be mad. He didn’t have the right to channel it the way he did Sunday night at Little Caesars Arena. At least not according to Adam Silver, the NBA’s commissioner, who suspended the Detroit Pistons‘ second-year forward for two games for “escalating and aggressively pursuing” LeBron James after the Los Angeles Lakers’ superstar hit him in
Detroit — For all the attention Sunday’s altercation between the Pistons’ Isaiah Stewart and the Lakers’ LeBron James received, here’s a sobering stat: there were more technical fouls assessed than punches thrown. There was more theater around what could have happened than what actually did happen. It was more playground dust-up than an actual fight
After LeBron James was ejected from the Lakers-Pistons game for elbowing Isaiah Stewart, a Reddit thread went viral for cataloguing LeBron’s dirtiest plays. LeBron James had only been back on the court for a few days before he reclaimed Lakers headlines. This time, it wasn’t for empowering the faltering Los Angeles team after an extended
The sentences have been handed down: Isaiah Stewart 2 games, LeBron James 1. But our Pistons LIVE team is already looking ahead to Pistons-Lakers Round 2 on Nov. 29 in Los Angeles. #DetroitBasketball
Lakers superstar LeBron James was suspended one game without pay and Pistons center Isaiah Stewart will serve a two-game suspension for their altercation on Sunday, the league announced in a press release. James was suspended for recklessly hitting Stewart in the face and initiating an on-court altercation. Stewart was given a bigger penalty for escalating the
DETROIT, MICHIGAN – NOVEMBER 21: LeBron James #6 of the Los Angeles Lakers is ejected from the game during the third quarter of the game against the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena on November 21, 2021 in Detroit, Michigan. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this
Isaiah Stewart will pay for his enraged fit Sunday night directed at LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. The second-year Detroit Pistons center, nicknamed Beef Stew with good reason, has been suspended two games, the NBA announced Monday night. He bulldozed his way around the Little Caesars Arena court, after sustaining a cut to his right eye with 9:18
Detroit — Following Sunday’s altercation between the Pistons’ Isaiah Stewart and Lakers superstar LeBron James, the NBA league office issued its punishments for the incident that made the rounds on highlight reels and national sports-talk shows. Stewart was suspended without pay for two games and James for one game for their involvement. The league office
Second-year guard Killian Hayes is expected to miss at least the next two games as the Pistons‘ medical staff attempts to alleviate the soreness in his sprained left thumb and increase its mobility, the team announced today. As Keith Langlois of Pistons.com notes (via Twitter), the injury has been an ongoing problem for Hayes, who
Dana Gauruder | Special to Detroit Free Press The Detroit Pistons will be without one of their starting guards for at least two more games. Killian Hayes will miss their home game against Miami on Tuesday and road contest in Milwaukee on Wednesday with a sprained left thumb, the team announced Monday. Hayes sat out
It hasn’t even been one month since Cade Cunningham made his Detroit Pistons debut against the Orlando Magic. Yet, Piston fans have already experienced the ups and downs of having a prized rookie on the team. After a sub-par first two games, Piston fans were in complete damage control, shielding ridiculous claims from aggregators and
Detroit — Injuries have bombarded the Pistons all season, limiting their starting lineup and causing them to play with various combinations. They’ll get some more work at it this week. Killian Hayes, who had been playing with a sore left thumb, missed Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Lakers after re-injuring it in Friday’s game
Killian Hayes will sit for the next two games at least to give the young point guard’s sprained thumb a chance to heal, the team announced Monday. Hayes originally sprained the left thumb Oct. 28 against the Philadelphia 76ers and had attempted to play through the pain. Seemingly in every game since then there has
That was ugly. Let’s start with that. No one wants to see what we saw at Little Ceasars Arena when the Detroit Pistons faced the Los Angeles Lakers game on Saturday evening. Quick recap: on a free-throw box out LeBron James’s hand came into violent contact with Isaiah Stewart’s face. Was it intentional from LeBron?
Cade Cunningham didn’t hesitate. When Isaiah Stewart charged after LeBron James on Sunday night at Little Caesars Arena — after James threw his elbow and his hand jacked Stewart in the face — Cunningham grabbed his teammate. He wrapped his arms around Stewart. Blood was streaming down Stewart’s face — he would require stitches — and Cunningham
The Isaiah Stewart meltdown after getting struck in the face by LeBron James was all over sports talk shows Monday morning. The Detroit Pistons (4-12) blew a 17-point second-half lead in a 121-116 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers (9-9), but reaction and debate about the enraged Stewart running all over the Little Caesars Arena floor was front and
Dana Gauruder | Special to Detroit Free Press The Detroit Pistons have taken all kinds of lumps during the first few weeks of the season. Their fiery second-year center wasn’t about to back down from the one he got on Sunday, even if it came from the world’s most famous athlete. LeBron James whacked Isaiah Stewart
Detroit — In the aftermath of Sunday night’s altercation between LeBron James and the Pistons’ Isaiah Stewart, the focus shifts how the NBA league office will handle the situation and whether either player — or both — will get a suspension for the incident. It was an ugly episode, to be sure, but it doesn’t
Lakers star LeBron James and Pistons youngster Isaiah Stewart were ejected from Sunday’s game in the third quarter following an on-court altercation and could face further punishment from the NBA league office. James struck Stewart in the face while the two players were battling for position on a Jerami Grant free throw, opening up a